This is a feat that will never be matched. Stupid threads like only back to backs need apply should be deleted for shear stupidity. If you never 8peated then you don't have an argument. And for Lakers fans they were also in the league when we won 8 straight. It isn't the Celtics fault the Lakers didn't win.

DFURY13 = And it is not the Lakers fault that the only Celtic fans to witness their team winning back to back titles are either dead or living in Boston area nursing homes.Posted by koberulz

Or living quite happily watching Laker fans twist themselves into all sorts of contortions trying to convince themselves of their superiority. To your credit, you reached the Finals more times than any other team in the NBA -- and that should be acknowledged and lauded -- but to have arguments about who was the best franchise now/in the recent past/in NBA history is an idiotic waste of time.

(And to get up at 5:30 in the morning just to go online and taunt strangers 3000 miles away is more than just weird.)

No other team will ever challenge that record. They will only make excuses. Each generation can talk about how the NBA was during their time, but the key thing in all those discussions, it's still the NBA!!!!!!!!!!